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Landmark Brownstone Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Linda Tours a Landmark Brownstone on Dean Street

Crown Heights, Brooklyn is home to hundreds of landmark brownstone row houses. Here’s what Linda thought of one for sale on Dean Street.

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A Property Flip on Mac Donough Street

A funny thing happened on the way to buying this turn of the century row house in Bedford Stuyvesant. Well, at least one buyer won’t find it funny when they learn they purchased their home on Mac Donough Street in a property flip. If that isn’t bad enough … it gets worst. They paid $230,000 [...]

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Will the IRS Make You Pay Taxes After a Short Sale?

Will the Tax Man Cometh After a Short Sale?

So after our site was down for nearly a month after being hacked and our email list was lost, we’ve been rebuilding our site slowly and painfully.

Not that we were some big threat to national security. We weren’t making state secrets public like wiki leaks. Which means whoever decided to target our site did so out of sport.

But in the aftermath of their hacker 101 session on our site, we lost some valuable information that’s been almost difficult to reconstruct or replace.

So, by the forces of the Internet, we’re forced to start all over and resume our efforts with our Foreclosure Short Sale E-Book!

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Starting Over and the Triumph of it All

Like the image above, I too have examined a few questions… Why did I hire that web designer? Why did I delay publishing posts on topics near and dear to our readers? Where is that new My Brooklyn Report?

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Foreclosure Scams: the Uglier Side of the Crisis

With more existing homes coming to market alongside recently constructed houses and condominiums in Brooklyn, all home shoppers and real estate investors are hunting for the best deals available, by any means necessary. But as you walk though streets in the outer boroughs, they’re more sellers than there are buyers.  From one block to the [...]

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How They Got it Done in Weeksville, Brooklyn

As a group, African Americans have endured innumerable horrors and obstacles in their pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness in the United States of America. People of African descent, recently emancipated from slavery, migrated north to flee the systemic oppression and reoccurring hostility that threatened their existence. Upon reaching Brooklyn and other parts of New [...]

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Is This the Death of MLS?

Over the last 15 years, we’ve seen consumers take control of their home shopping experience by conducting their own research on the Internet.

Many first time home buyers departed from the path taken by their parents in the ’70′s & ’80′s, where they would walk into a real estate agency’s office and sit with an agent to discuss what kind of house they were looking for…

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We’re Almost There…And You’re Going to Love It

We’re going to make our transition next week to our new look. Which is why we’ve been posting less frequently. Ask anyone publishing a blog and they’ll tell you; when it comes to moving content from one platform to another, your bound to run into problems. You really only get one chance to get it right.

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